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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on April 19, 2006.
Genetics, Vol. 173, 1705-1723, July 2006, Copyright © 2006
doi:10.1534/genetics.105.054502
Estimating the Contribution of Mutation, Recombination and Gene Conversion in the Generation of Haplotypic Diversity
Peter L. Morrell, Donna M. Toleno, Karen E. Lundy and Michael T. Clegg1
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697
1 Corresponding author: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 321 Steinhaus Hall, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697.
E-mail: mclegg{at}uci.edu
Recombination occurs through both homologous crossing over and homologous gene conversion during meiosis. The contribution of recombination relative to mutation is expected to be dramatically reduced in inbreeding organisms. We report coalescent-based estimates of the recombination parameter (
) relative to estimates of the mutation parameter (
) for 18 genes from the highly self-fertilizing grass, wild barley, Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum. Estimates of / are much greater than expected, with a mean 
/
1.5, similar to estimates from outcrossing species. We also estimate with and without the contribution of gene conversion. Genotyping errors can mimic the effect of gene conversion, upwardly biasing estimates of the role of conversion. Thus we report a novel method for identifying genotyping errors in nucleotide sequence data sets. We show that there is evidence for gene conversion in many large nucleotide sequence data sets including our data that have been purged of all detectable sequencing errors and in data sets from Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans, and Zea mays. In total, 13 of 27 loci show evidence of gene conversion. For these loci, gene conversion is estimated to contribute an average of twice as much as crossing over to total recombination.
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